Saturday, November 12, 2005
Flames Game Night
One of these days, or years, the Colorado Avalanche are going to have a season like their NHL predecessors in Denver. The Avs are presently 9-4-2 and have the best Win% in the Northwest Division, despite the fact that on paper, they should be quite a bit worse than last season.- Peter Forsberg is out, Pierre Turgeon is in
- Adam Foote is out, Patrice Brisebois is in
- Joe Sakic 18 months older (here's Joe's 1987 draft class: just about every player that's still active was considered over-the-hill before the lockout)
- Rob Blake 18 months older (another guy whose draft contemporaries are well past their primes)
- Their young players are fairly unheralded
Grapes, Stan Fischler's 1982 biography of Don Cherry, has plenty of uncomplimentary Hardy Astrom anecdotes, but here's one from hhof.com:
Giving the red light a workout was never a concern while Hardy Astrom was in goal for Don Cherry's Colorado Rockies in 1979-80. "First practice in Colorado, we were working on breakout drills. I shoot the puck at Hardy from the far blue line, and it goes right through his legs. 'Fluke,' I figure, so I shoot another one. Right through his legs again. 'Next drill,' I said.
Actually, Hardy was a nice guy, he just had a weakness with pucks."
Tonight's prediction: Aebischer lets some in, but no weak ones, and the Flames win 5-2 for their first 6-game win streak in over a decade. Go Flames.
# posted by Matt @ 3:46 pm 
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I like Kelly Hrudey, but that dictionary bit made me squirm.
"I think Gary Bettman is a good businessman!" Well, fine, but if the point was to take Tiger Williams' remarks personally, explaining how Gary Bettman is not a punk is a really weird way to do that.
I just want to take this opportunity to apologize to Mr. Hardy Astrom, his family, and his various teammates.
Because all my predictions seem to pay off for Calgary these days whether right or wrong, I am formally remaining silent about the West Semifinal. (Remaining silent, that is, while hoovering Rolaids at nine hundred miles an hour. Eccchhh.)
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I like Kelly Hrudey, but that dictionary bit made me squirm.
"I think Gary Bettman is a good businessman!" Well, fine, but if the point was to take Tiger Williams' remarks personally, explaining how Gary Bettman is not a punk is a really weird way to do that.
I just want to take this opportunity to apologize to Mr. Hardy Astrom, his family, and his various teammates.
Because all my predictions seem to pay off for Calgary these days whether right or wrong, I am formally remaining silent about the West Semifinal. (Remaining silent, that is, while hoovering Rolaids at nine hundred miles an hour. Eccchhh.)
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